Just when it appeared the FDA was close to purging the U.S. drug supply of potential cancer-causing impurities in sartan blood pressure drugs, another massive recall has been launched. This time it is for an entirely new contaminant.
Mylan has expanded the consumer-level voluntary recall of all lots of valsartan-containing drugs within expiry in the US after finding trace amounts of an impurity called N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA).....